Why celebrate Senghor in 2006? I believe, to answer in a very naive way this question that is not to forget it's work although it constituted, that I say, that it constitutes in itself a work.

Studying in African literatures, young person African and militant in an association of the Francophonie, Senghor, it is all my life!

Born with joal in Senegal in a context social and political where the black man was a not coànsidered like human person , a "being without heart", Senghor, one of the largest poets than will never have known the literature, managed to give an image more than positive to the Negros. To its feather, it posed the stakes of the African literature of French expression and thus opened, the way to hundreds of African writers after him. A thing which was not easy matter to achieve, this the more so as the White had managed to make admit in the consciences that the Black was unable to think.

The movement of Négritude, "the whole of the values of the ages of the black world" that Senghor with his friends Césaire and Damas forged, had come to rectify the black man of its despair; to lead it to raise the head and more never not to fold the spine, in short, to be held débout as a man. Thus, Senghor will be the source of inspiration of the writers of yesterday and today but not only, of the Africans in general too.

Négritude had two important ranges for Africa: On the political level, it made it possible to prepare Independences of the Sixties and on the cultural level, to make turn over the Africans to their cultural values that colonization had denied a long time. In the tread of Independences, the Senghor visionary will be, with Hamani Diori of Niger and Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia, one of the fathers founders of the Francophonie of today. He which wanted with to leave the suns of the colonial one, that the old countries colonized by France finds around the same speech community Senghor preached the cultural interbreeding, it now held it with the Francophonie which became a base where individuals of different race and culture find themselves. The destiny of Senghor was a long time (and will be it for a long time still! ) attached to that of Africa with which it had ' ' a sensual intimacy and mythique".Qu' it remembers Ethiopiques, which it remembers" naked woman, black woman ".

I could not say what Senghor did in its absoluity. It was necessary simplementt to break silence to be let move by the work of that which said: " The ultimate goal of the life of a man, it is to create open beauty and it is through these creations that one takes part in the eternity of the life ". Even in the country of deaths, Senghor one it can, continuous inspire our steps today.